Thin section of the optic lobe of a Drosophila pupal brain. Photoreceptor axons (blue) and lamina neurons (green) bypass the lamina and project into different layers of the medulla (red, center), where visual information is integrated and processed and then relayed to the lobula complex ( red, bottom).

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